TY - JOUR T1 - A stress fracture of the lumbar spine in a professional rugby player JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med DO - 10.1136/bjsm.2006.032789 AU - Bernard H Castinel AU - Philippe Adam AU - Christophe Prat Y1 - 2006/11/30 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2006/11/30/bjsm.2006.032789.abstract N2 - In modern rugby, the spine is subjected to great physical pressure. Indeed there are more and more impacts involving axial loading and radial torque especially on the cervical spine but also on the lumbar spine. The players have become larger, the game faster, with more sequences and less recovery time .We can distinguish acute spinal injuries but also chronic and overuse injuries. We present here the case of a 32 year old international professional rugbyman playing in a Championship level French team, who presented a stress fracture of the right pars interarticularis of L5. ER -